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Author Topic:   Proofs of Evolution: A Mediocre Debate (Faith, robinrohan and their invitees)
Parasomnium
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Message 231 of 295 (279527)
01-16-2006 4:44 PM
Reply to: Message 211 by Faith
01-15-2006 5:58 PM


Faith & Robin
Hello Faith, Robin,
Sorry for breaking into your conversation, but since my name was mentioned I think I am a little entitled to make a brief comment.
Faith writes:
Even if it were true that mind is a product of the brain, in itself it is incorporeal just as the words I'm writing are incorporeal in themselves. The meaning or thought that passes from me to you and you to me is incorporeal.
Where in the chain from the neural pathways in your brain and nervous system, via the muscle actions in your underarms to move your fingers on the keyboard, and the electronic connections in your computer, the internet, and my computer, and the light emitted by my screen, falling on my retina, going to my brain to form neural pathways that correspond to yours, where in that chain can one speak of something incorporeal? That's what I'd like to know.
By the way, this IS a great debate, by two fine writers, no matter what the thread title says. Thank you both. I'll leave you to it now.

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Parasomnium
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Message 238 of 295 (279652)
01-17-2006 10:51 AM
Reply to: Message 236 by robinrohan
01-17-2006 10:38 AM


Re: Parasomnium
robinrohan writes:
I can't imagine two people more dissimilar. Ha!
The most striking dissimilarity being of course that he's dead and I'm alive. "Ha!" indeed.

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